- Federal budget standoff is nerve-racking for state’s long-term jobless, By Marc Lifsher, November 28, 2012, Los Angeles Times: “The federal budget crisis in Washington known as the ‘fiscal cliff’ has an estimated 400,000 long-term jobless Californians on the edge. A 41/2 -year-old program of emergency federal jobless assistance, which provides many of the state’s unemployed up to $450 a week in benefits, is scheduled to expire Dec. 29 — unless Congress and President Obama agree to keep it going. Nationwide, about 2 million people face a cutoff in unemployment benefits, estimated to cost $30 billion in the coming year. An additional 1 million jobless workers are expected to lose state benefits by March…”
- 45,000 Massachusetts residents could lose federal unemployment insurance benefits in December, By Shira Schoenberg, November 27, 2012, Springfield Republican: “The state Division of Unemployment Assistance has notified 45,000 Massachusetts residents that their unemployment benefits will end at the end of the year, if Congress does not act. Michelle Amante, acting director of the Division of Unemployment Assistance, said the division sent out letters to beneficiaries on Monday and Tuesday. The change will affect anyone who is currently receiving federal extension benefits…”
Day: November 28, 2012
Working Families in Poverty – Britain
- Increasing numbers of working people live in poverty, report finds, By Randeep Ramesh, November 25, 2012, The Guardian: “Increasing numbers of people in work are finding themselves in poverty, according to a report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The report highlights the growing incidence of well-educated people on the breadline because of a failure to find a job. The report charts the changes in recent decades in levels of poverty in Britain – and seeks to explain why, despite higher levels of employment and a more qualified workforce, there has not been more success in combating poverty. The Monitoring Poverty report calls for the government to ‘give up the belief that welfare reform’ is the solution and focus instead on the phenomenon of in-work poverty…”
- The working poor: staggering 6m facing insecurity have jobs, November 26, 2012, London Evening Standard: “Millions of workers are facing insecurity, moving in and out of jobs, and poverty, according to a new report. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said over six million people classed as living in poverty, were in households where people worked. Excluding pensioners, in-work poverty now outstrips workless poverty, while 1.4 million people were now working part-time when they wanted a full-time job, an increase of 500,000 since 2009, said the report…”
Shared Housing in the US
More U.S. adults sharing households, By Haya El Nasser, November 28, 2012, USA Today: “More than a third of young adults live in someone else’s home, a segment that has grown dramatically since the recession began in 2007 but is starting to inch down — a hint of an improving economy. According to 2011 Census data released Wednesday, the number and percentage of households where adults are doubling up peaked in 2010 at 22.2 million, sliding to 22 million in 2011. Homes shared by adults who are not spouses or partners now make up 19.2% of all households…”